Shortly after the release of Grand Prix Legends the sim racing community looked forward to another title that promised to offer a similar insight into historic racing. Trans-Am Racing ’68-’72 ultimately never released, a victim of a publishers shady dealings, but as a part of my research I uncovered a VHS of a never-released trailer for the game. Watch the trailer and read about what sim racing missed out on.
RSC contains a database of 153 developers, 468 software titles, 374 cars, 42 bikes, 242 tracks and more...Legendary British game developer whose career spanned a 20 year period and included groundbreaking simulations of Formula Three and Formula One, including arguably the first ever racing sim: Revs (1984).
Most famous for his Grand Prix series that were published under the MicroProse label until 2000, his career unceremoniously ended when his studio was shut down by Infogrames and the Xbox version of Grand Prix 4 cancelled just prior to release.
RSC Podcast Episode 7 – Management Simulations, F1 Managers, Always Used To Be Better?Join Jon Denton, Tim Wheatley, Simon Croft and guest(s) as they discuss sim racing and racing games past, present and future.
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Great news once again for you AMS2 fans as the 1.0 version is now confirmed to be arriving in June.
Here are a list of the things their Dev Update mentions being worked on at this time and their timing for release:
– Car Animations for 1.0
– Multiplayer ranking for TBD
– Content upgraded from AMS1 to AMS2 standard for 1.0
Content:
– Spa-Francorchamps licensed
– Brazilian Stock Car series announcement coming this week.
– Estoril (see screen below)
– Brabham BT44 (see below)
– Lotus 72E (see below)
– McLaren M23 (see below)
– F-Retro (to go with the cars above, see render below)
Hockenheim status:
Bathurst status:
Silverstone status:
I think this is Montreal?
AMS2 is a comprehensive simulation of the Brazilian motorsports scene, featuring all major Brazilian racing series, race tracks and manufacturers, as well as a selection of modern and classic content from around the world.
